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...consultant was equally impressed with the program itself and its founder, W. Barton Leach '21, Story Professor of Law. He reported favorably to the trustees. Three months later Leach received $214,800--enough to place the program on solid ground after a shaky first year...
Since then the idea of providing training to serve as a background for Defense Department employees has spread to other universities--exactly as Leach originally intended. At Dartmouth, John A. Masland and Lawrence W. Radwar, experts in military history, are interested and plan to launch a seminar in the near future. Roger Hilsman at the Center of International Studies at Princeton envisions a seminar "soon." Ohio State University, which has considerable funds available for this type of work is also interested in establishing a program. Other groups at Yale, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Virginia are also...
...Defense Studies Program at present offers but one course--the Defense Policy Seminar, open only to graduate students. Leach plans eventually, however, to promote a plan for undergraduate courses as well...
...that the program is on solid ground, Leach has started to look toward publishing a journal in the field--an "American Journal of National Defense," as he calls it. The publication would fill the gaps left by service journals today. It would be directed to a foreign affairs audience, and would provide a means for presenting policies as they develop with both sides of each issue printed at the same time, side by side...
...Leach had been connected in one way or another with the Defense Department and the Air Force, in addition to holding his Law School post, for a number of years. He wrote to President Pusey in the fall of 1953 to explain an idea which he had thought about for several years. In the letter he explained that every department of the government had some form of unofficial academic tie, with people working in the field and conducting research pertaining to the work of a particular area of the department. Only the Defense Department lacked a breeding ground for future...